Nabbed Israeli gang boss ‘had huge murder, kidnap arsenal’

20 November 2022 - 00:05 By THANDUXOLO JIKA, GRAEME HOSKEN and ARON HYMAN

Yaniv Ben Simon, the Israeli fugitive arrested this week with seven others in the expensive northern Johannesburg suburb of Bryanston, is no ordinary criminal but the second in command of one of Israel’s most ruthless organisations...

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